(Top 2024/2025 EXAM REVIEW PAPER )WGU Scripting and Programming WGU C173. Exam Review Questions and answers. Graded A+

WGU Scripting and Programming WGU C173. Exam Review Questions and answers. Graded A+ computer program - -instructions, executing one at a time input - -program gets data; from keyboard, file, touchscreen, network, etc process - -data put elsewhere; to a file, screen, network, etc triangle's area - -1/2*base*height computational thinking - -a sequence of instructions to solve a problem algorithm - -sequence of instructions that solves a problem flowchart - -graphical language for creating computer programs interpreter - -runs a program's statements run and execute - -words for carrying a program's statements a parallelogram represents..? - -an input (or output) statement string literal - -consists of text (characters) within double quotes 2 such as "Go #57!" character - -any letter or symbol cursor - -indicates where the next output item will be placed in the output newline - -Special two-character sequence n whose appearance in an output string literal causes the cursor to move to the next output line. The newline exists invisibly in the output. Put "To be" to output Put "or not to be" to output - -to beor not to be Put "anbnc" to output - -a b c comment - -text a programmer adds to a program, to be read by humans to better understand the code, but ignored by the program when executing whitespace - -refers to blank spaces (a space and tab characters) between items within a statement, and to newlines whitespace helps to? - -improve readability for humans, but for execution purposes is mostly ignored whitespace common practice? - -use exactly one space before and after each operator What whitespace does matter? - --variable cant include spaces -likewise, digits of a number can include spaces 3 ex: numCars=25 and NOT num Cars = 2 5 bit - -single 0 or 1 byte - -8 bits ASCI uses how many bits per code? - -7 Unicode - -another character encoding standard, published in 1991, whose codes can have more bits than ASCII and thus can represent over 100,000 items, such as symbols and non-English characters. Pseudocode - -text that resembles a program in a real programming language but is simplified to aid human understanding; may use more sentence-like notation = - -in programming does not mean equals. In programming is an assignment of a left-side variable with a right-side value. What is "usersAge" type? - -integer; holds an integer value identifier - -A name created by a programmer for an item like a variable or a function identifiers - --start with a letter -no spacing -multiple underline or single underline is ok -no using language keywords can be used ("get" -no using ! naming conventions - -a set of style guidelines for naming variable